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Jdizzle188

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May 22, 2020
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Good afternoon to the community,

I'm hoping someone can give me direction as all of a sudden my set up of two years has started acting strange.

To begin with all new lights since I changed a bulb were defaulting to that room and seeing the new bulb as the bridge, which in itself is odd, usually when a new bulb was added to the hue app it'd appear in either a default room or the landing room where the hue bridge was connected.

Figuring out this I thought to just remove the bulb and this would remove the errant light that was appearing again in the room and set the redirect to the actual bridge when tapping bridge on the Accessory information page. No dice instead it's nuked my whole lighting set up.

Trying to readd the lights through the hue app to Homekit I just now get "connecting" followed by "cannot connect to this accessory"

I've seen the profile on Reddit that wipes every single crumb of Homekit data but whilst I want to do this it's then going to involve no doubt me resetting and reconnecting the Homepods and Apple TVs in the house, is there any other way round this, or what would you do?

As always thanks in advance
 
have you rebooted everything?
hue hub, home hubs (apple tv and HomePods), router, phone?

sometimes when I need to do this much, I'll just manually turn off computers or anything that would be adversely affected, then go to the breaker box and turn off the entire house for a few seconds.
 
This happened to me!
On the same day also, this past Sunday.
I got home from a trip, and noticed Saturday night and Sunday, all my accessories lost connection, Hue or not.

When I got home I tried troubleshooting things. Rebooting hubs, devices, my phone, home hubs.
Nothing worked.
What I ended up having to do was delete all my devices from HomeKit.
Re-set up the home in my Hue app, and reconnect things over to HomeKit, from the Hue side.
I had to re-group up my devices and re-setup automations, and now it seems to be working ok.
All except for my one Leviton wifi light switch. I have to go back and reboot that separately.

What a huge pain. I'm glad I don't have a larger smart-home setup.
 
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